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Featured blog: Let’s leverage herbaria impact through Deep Learning

Pierre Bonnet

José Carranza-Rojas, Erick Mata-Montero and Pierre Bonnet discuss their new study that uses deep learning techniques to move forward our ability to automate identification of herbarium specimens to help unlock the potential treasure-trove of data in the worlds herbaria.

Featured article: Insertions and deletions, from Neanderthals to humans

Chintalapati et al.

Comparisons to the newly available Neanderthal genome provide further evidence that deletions evolve under more constraint than insertions in the modern human genome, as well as potential examples of former Neanderthal-specific traits contributing to modern human phenotypic diversity.

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BMC Evolutionary Biology is an open access, peer-reviewed journal that considers articles on all aspects of molecular and non-molecular evolution of all organisms, as well as phylogenetics and palaeontology.

David Liberles, Section Editor

David Liberles is Associate Professor in the Department of Biology, Center for Computational Genetics and Genomics, and Institute for Genomics and Evolutionary Medicine at Temple University, working in the areas of computational comparative genomics and molecular (protein) evolution. He joined the editorial board of BMC Evolutionary Biology in 2008.

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